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Nineteen scientists affiliated with the MBL are among the 84 Faculty Scholars recently announced by The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

It was two summers ago during a meeting at Coffee Obsession in Woods Hole that the reunion plan was hatched. “What if we were to hold a 40th reunion for the 1976 Experimental Invertebrate Zoology summer course in person?

What happens when scientific philanthropy meets the brains behind discovery? The Grass Laboratory is born, representing a fruitful cooperation between the Grass Foundation and the Marine Biological Laboratory to train budding neuroscientists.

Tetsuya Nakamura and Neil Shubin of University of Chicago report a major insight into the game-changing evolution of fish fins into vertebrate limbs, this week in the journal Nature. Nakamura initiated this work in the MBL’s Whitman Center in 2014.

We write this while we finish the last experiments for the final Show n’ Tell on Saturday full of reluctance to finish this course. Samples fly all over the lab; solutions are changed and something blue boils somewhere in the room.

By Diana Kenney and Raleigh McElvery Nobel Laureate Eric Betzig was back at the MBL in June with one of his latest innovations in microscopy. Betzig and his group members, Wesley Legant and Ved Singh of HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus, installed the lattice light sheet microscope Betzig designed in the Physiology course, where it was

Grace Anderson just made her first contributions to biodiversity science. Anderson, a student at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, spent the month of May at the MBL working alongside David Remsen, manager of the MBL Marine Resources Department. Sampling from the ocean on the MBL’s collecting boat, the Gemma, and foraging […]

The second floor of MBL’s Loeb Laboratory will be populated by a menagerie of organisms this summer, ranging from the well-studied, such as flies and frogs, to marine and other organisms whose biology remains to be fully grasped.

Here’s a photographic update from Heidi Golden of the FishScape Team, which is studying the movement of Arctic grayling populations throughout the northern Alaskan landscape. The team is tracking several genetically distinct grayling populations, and is interested in the fishes’ performance in watersheds that differ in temperature, aquatic connectivity, and sensitivity to climate change. The